Knight’s season is over after rushing for 269 yards and four touchdowns.
The Arizona Cardinals have lost another running back for the rest of the season. The ankle injury that Bam Knight suffered on Sunday against the Houston Texans is serious enough to end his year.
The Cardinals placed him on injured reserve on Tuesday. With only three games in the season remaining, Knight is ineligible to return.
He suffered the ankle injury on the Cardinals’ first offensive play from scrimmage on Sunday, a two-yard loss. He was carted to the locker room.
On Monday, it was reported that it is “a bad sprain” but that there was no fracture and that an MRI would confirm it.
Knight’s season ends after rushing for 269 yards and four touchdowns on 3.3 yards per attempt in 12 games, including eight starts. He also had 22 receptions for 160 yards and a touchdown.
Knight made the roster out of training camp and was inactive in two of the first three games of the season. But injuries to James Conner and Trey Benson and Knight’s play in practice propelled him into a starting role.
Knight will be a restricted free agent in 2026.
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